Press & Media

2022: A Judge Retires. Just How Political Is That Decision? — The New York Times

2022: ‘Takes 1 Year, 5 Months to Dispose of a POCSO Case; UP Has Highest Pendency Percentage’ — The Wire

2022: Three Acquittals for Every Conviction Under POCSO Act: Report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, World Bank’s DE JURE — Bar & Bench 

2022: ALEGRA: Public Defenders in Peru — Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos

2022: A Decade of POCSO: Developments, Challenges and Insights from Judicial Data — Vidhi Legal Policy

2022: 14% Conviction in POCSO; in a Fourth of Cases, Accused Known to Victims, Says Study — The Indian Express 

2022: Opinion: The Public Health Case for Decarcerating America’s Prison System — Undark

2021: La Justice des Algorithmes: Pourquoi il vaudrait mieux remplacer les juges par une IA dans certains cas — Neonmag

2021: Failure to Prioritize Vaccinating Incarcerated People Will Harm Everyone, Again — Jacobin

2021: As Covid Surges Again, Decarceration is More Necessary Than Ever — The Nation 

2021: Covid-19 et Prisons: Attention au Boomerang Carcéral — La Tribune

2021: Mass Incarceration Has Worsened the COVID-19 Pandemic for Everyone — Jacobin

2020: Stop Unnecessary Arrests to Slow Coronavirus Spread — The New York Times 

2020: “When You Arrest as Many People as We Do, You Cannot Protect Against Infectious Spread” — Jacobin

2009: ALEGRA: Public Defenders in Peru — OHCHR

Short Reports

2022: What Happens When You Train Senior Civil Servants in Econometrics?  — World Bank

2022: Transmitting gender attitudes in school: Experimental evidence from Pakistan — Voxdev

2022: Why are Rights Revolutions Rare? — World Bank 

2021: Who is in Justice? Caste, Religion and Gender in the Courts of Bihar over a Decade  — World Bank

2021: Training policymakers in econometrics: Evidence from Pakistan — Voxdev

2021: Training effective altruism: Experimental evidence from Pakistan — Voxdev

2019: Science for Impact: Better Evidence for Better Decisions — World Bank

Videos

2022 Asia Law and Economics Association Keynote
2022: NBER Development
2022 Stanford Hoover Text as Data
2022: Harvard Development Network
2022: NBER SI IT and Digitization
2022: Can AI Be Ethical?
2020: International Conference on Computational Social Science Keynote
2020: World Bank DE JURE
2014: Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Socialis Zurich
2013: Inaugural Lecture ETH Zurich